På gång i Georgetown, Guyana under året

Mycket folk — Christmas and Old Year's Night, skollov i 4 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

Inget nytt börjar i januari.

Pågår fortfarande: Christmas and Old Year's Night (15 dec – 1 jan (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — Mashramani, Phagwah

• Festival

  Mashramani

  15–24 febKarnevalTrångt

  Republic Day on 23 February is kept as a costume-and-float parade with sound trucks working through the middle of the city. The word is Amerindian for a celebration after cooperative work, and it is the country's carnival. Källa ↗

• Helg

  Phagwah

  25 feb – 25 mar · vanligtvisReligiös högtidStängningar

  Guyana's Holi is a public holiday and is played in the open, with abeer and powder in the streets and at the mandirs on the East Bank. Wear what you are prepared to throw away. Källa ↗

Mest folk — Phagwah, Easter kite flying

• Festival

  Easter kite flying

  20 mar – 25 apr · vanligtvisPåsk & stilla veckanTrångt

  Easter Monday in Guyana means kites. Families pack the seawall and the Botanical Gardens with picnics and homemade kites, and the sky over Georgetown fills by afternoon. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Phagwah (25 feb – 25 mar (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Easter kite flying

Inget nytt börjar i april.

Pågår fortfarande: Easter kite flying (20 mar – 25 apr (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Guyana Carnival

• Risk

  Flooding in the city

  1 maj – 31 jul · vanligtvisÖversvämningssäsong

  Georgetown lies below sea level and drains through canals and kokers that only open at low tide. Heavy rain at high tide floods streets in several neighbourhoods, sometimes for days. Källa ↗

• Festival

  Guyana Carnival

  18–27 maj · vanligtvisTrångtBoka tidigt

  A week of fetes and a road parade built around Independence Day on 26 May, the biggest party week of the year. Georgetown's limited hotel stock fills, so book ahead. Källa ↗

Lugnt — skollov i 2 av marknaderna som fyller platsen, en av dess sämsta vädermånader

Inget nytt börjar i juni.

Pågår fortfarande: Flooding in the city (1 maj – 31 jul (vanligtvis))

Mellansäsong — skollov i 4 av marknaderna som fyller platsen, en helt vanlig månad

Inget nytt börjar i juli.

Pågår fortfarande: Flooding in the city (1 maj – 31 jul (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Emancipation festival

• Festival

  Emancipation festival

  1 augStor festivalTrångt

  The public holiday on 1 August centres on the African heritage festival in the National Park: drumming, dance, craft stalls and food villages, with concerts into the evening. Källa ↗

Mycket folk — skollov i 2 av marknaderna som fyller platsen, en av dess bästa vädermånader

• Festival

  Amerindian Heritage Month

  1–30 sepStor festival

  September honours Guyana's nine Indigenous nations. It opens at the Umana Yana benab in Kingston with dance, cassava bread and craft stalls, and Georgetown hosts markets and exhibitions through the month. Källa ↗

Mycket folk — Diwali motorcade

• Helg

  Diwali motorcade

  10 okt – 20 nov · vanligtvisStängningar

  Diwali is a national holiday here, and the night before it a motorcade of lit floats runs the length of the city with houses along the route in diyas. Traffic on the sea wall road stops for hours. Källa ↗

Mycket folk — Diwali motorcade

Inget nytt börjar i november.

Pågår fortfarande: Diwali motorcade (10 okt – 20 nov (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Christmas and Old Year's Night, skollov i 4 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

• Helg

  Christmas and Old Year's Night

  15 dec – 1 jan · vanligtvisJul & nyårTrångtStängningar

  Stabroek Market and Regent Street are packed with shoppers in the run-up to Christmas; Boxing Day is also a holiday, and Old Year's Night ends with fireworks along the seawall. Källa ↗